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Status

Unbuilt

Date

2010

Location

Yarzeh, Lebanon

Team

Fouad Samara
Jad Abi Fadel
In collaboration with Eleanor Rennie Architects.

A purity of volume

This residential building is located in the serene region of Yarzeh, an area characterized by lush vegetation and an abundance of secluded villas and diplomatic residences. The project is integrated into the existing natural slope and is comprised of a series of apartments, distributed within two distinct volumes, that connect directly to the outdoors.

 

Building massing

The building footprint occupies the zone within the setback, fixating the outer extremities of the building. A 4.5 m wide space in the middle is created to introduce a courtyard and continuous entrance into the building lobby and elevators, while transforming the building volume into two distinct entities that shift in plan for increased privacy between the apartments. Gardens of relatively low vegetation are introduced to the terraces on the ground floor level, which increase privacy from the surrounding neighbors, offer a pleasant view for the building tenants, and maintain unobstructed view outwards.

Spatial flexibility

In the form of two separated volumes, the building features an operable facade that allows one to open up their apartment to the degree they require, and if opened completely, converts their apartment into an open shaded summer house. The building, consequently, takes form as a series of pure white slabs floating about the Yarzeh landscape.